Introduction to Anaconda


  • Download

  • create a virtual environment




Joanne Tseng

Anaconda


Completely free enterprise-ready Python distribution for large scale data processing, predictive analytics, and scientific computing.

Download



  • http://continuum.io/downloads

  • After downloading:(Ubuntu)
    $ bash Anaconda-2.X.X-Linux-x86[_64].sh

How to manage your package - conda

 conda list  // see all the packages you have in Anaconda
 conda info
 conda search XXXX   //XXXX means package name
 conda install XXXX

 conda update conda  //
 conda update anaconda

IDE - Spyder


Spyder is the Scientific Python development environment

  • a powerful interactive development environment for the Python language
  • include most of the packages you need for Scientific Computing . Ipython Notebook, Numpy, Scipy, matplotlib, scikit-learn

create a virtual environment

conda create -n condaTest python=3.3 anaconda  //condaTest: name of environment
source activate condaTest 
source deactivate

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